Fighting intensifies in eastern Ukraine as civilians hide in basements

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Fighting intensifies in eastern Ukraine as
FIGHTING intensifies in Rubizhne, eastern Ukraine as civilians hide in basements.

Olga, one of the residents of a bomb shelter located in a basement of a kindergarten, told Reuters reporters on Wednesday (June 1) that there are about 140 residents currently living at the premises, but at one moment there were more than 600 people in the shelter.

“We do have a pharmacy, with which we can provide help not only to our residents of bomb shelter, but also to people around us,” she told reporters. “I repeat once again - we are supplied with groceries, we don’t have a humanitarian catastrophe.”

UK military intelligence reported last week that the fighting intensified in the Luhansk region of Ukraine as Russia seeks to encircle cities of Severodonetsk, Lyschansk and Rubizhne.